Women's Volleyball

SPARTANS START 2017-18 SEASON IN SASKATOON, HOST UBCO IN HOME-OPENER

Jun 21, 2017

LANGLEY, British Columbia – The Trinity Western women’s volleyball team opens its 2017-18 Canada West regular season schedule on the road against Saskatchewan Oct. 20-21, before returning to the Langley Events Centre for its home-opening weekend Oct. 27-28 against UBC Okanagan.

SCHEDULE HIGHLIGHTS
• The Spartans, who are the defending Canada West and U SPORTS bronze medallists, will open their home schedule with a rematch of last year’s Canada West bronze medal match against UBCO.
o TWU knocked off the Heat to earn the third and final Canada West berth at the U SPORTS championship. The Spartans have beat UBCO in the Canada West postseason in each of the last four years.
• The Spartans host Alberta, who were last year’s Canada West champions and U SPORTS silver medallists, in an early season weekend series Nov. 24-25.
o Something about last year….
• TWU and defending U SPORTS champion UBC will play a home and home series in the penultimate weekend of the regular season.
o Last year, the Spartans swept their two-match regular season series with the T-Birds. However, UBC went on to edge TWU in both the Canada West and U SPORTS semifinals.
• The Spartans will host Mount Royal Nov. 17-18 in a rematch of last year’s Canada West Quarter-Final series, which saw TWU earn a two-match sweep with 3-0 and 3-1 victories.
• This season marks a significant change to the conference post-season, as the number of playoff teams will rise from seven to eight, with best-of-three quarter-finals and semifinals leading to a single-game championship.
• The conference eliminated the Final Four tournament in favour of a one-game championship hosted by the highest remaining seed. If Canada West has at least three berths to nationals – this year the conference has four berths – the higher team to have lost in the semis will host the bronze medal game.